So you're trying to offer your arts funders evidence that you have met key performance indicators of excellence.
Conventional wisdom dictates that competitions are rarely concrete indicators of excellence, but rather of how well competitors fulfill the guidelines set before them.
These are the things that count when assessing the qualifications of a Supreme Court nominee, and they are much more reliable indicators of excellence than sex, race, religion or political affiliation.
If a student is outstanding on the court, and if a school is building new squash courts or a team, even a selective college will be looking for other indicators of excellence, not just academics".
The number of papers within the top 10% of the worldwide impact distribution has been considered a robust indicator of scientific excellence in previous bibliometric studies [23], [28], [29].
If you have a choice of hospitals, consider one that has achieved Magnet status, an indicator of nursing excellence.
He came up with six indicators of research excellence, used them to rank the world's top universities and published the result.
In becoming the fifth left-hander to record 300 career victories, an accomplishment deemed the definitive indicator of sustained pitching excellence, Glavine joined the club nearly three years since it admitted its last member (Aug. 7, 2004), his former Braves teammate Greg Maddux.
Citations of individual articles can be a good indicator of quality, but the excellence of individual articles does not correlate with the impact factor of the journals in which they are published.
The simple comparison of Figure 4 needs also to take account of the mean RL of papers from each area, and, when this is done, a different pattern emerges, with EH=Edinburgh, OX=Oxford and CB=Cambridge forming an axis of excellence (on this indicator) and other areas' output being less cited on guidelines.
Journal publication success is only one indicator of academic performance next to excellence in teaching, receiving grants, job offers from prestigious schools, successful industry cooperation, etc.
